Transport
is by canoe, speed boat or passenger boat, to the nearest 
town or City.
Bicycle’s, horses, motorbikes, cars and trucks are used by the
wealthier citizens. By foot to town
takes a few hours….which can be exhausting in hot weather.
There
are many fluvial market boats, which buy and sell local produce, such as farinha,
fruits, medicines, coffee, sugar, tobacco and alcohol to and from the regions
local communities. Some communities
maybe four days away (by canoe in the rainy season or on foot in the dry
season), therefore they know and communicate to each other through the jungle,
the time of the market boats
appearance on the main river.
There are huge steam boats, that carry containers, building materials and machinery etc.
Via the river systems
nationally Local
communities sell their produce to them as they are passing by.
This can be a potentially dangerous hazard, and requires skill and
experience to canoe alongside a steam boat and negotiate with the team who have
been on the boat for months.
In 1970, a 870 km road was built, called the BR-319, between Porto Velho and Manaus, but has not been used for 12 years, due to neglect of maintaining its surface.
Discussions are in progress to re-build the 500 kms that are un-navigatable. It also has serious consequences for further forest destruction, driving out of insect and animal species, fluvial transport competition, drug, animal and child trafficking, increase in tropical diseases and increased rate of spread, increase in inflation and tax prices, increase in road accidents and potential attacks from wild animals (as reported in past surveys).
